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I know that this question has already been answered, but the method described here is actually not working for me... o.O I read in some other forums that a different formatting is required, but I don't know which... If anyone could help me with this... I am running Raspbian's latest release as of 28/11/2014 Cheers

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BlackWhiteX
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You can create a startup sound using mplayer and a mp3 file. (Fixed)

Here is what you need:

  1. Install mplayer

sudo apt-get install mplayer

2.Go to root

sudo su

  1. Make sound directory in /etc

sudo mkdir /etc/sound

  1. Upload the sound file as mp3 to the sound directory

sudo mv /tmp/soundfile.mp3 /etc/sound/sample.mp3

  1. Copy and paste below line on command promp

sudo echo "mplayer /etc/sound/sample.mp3" >> /etc/rc.local

Make sure to upload your mp3 file to your Raspberry Pi in /tmp/ directory

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Chetan Bhargava
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Instead of aplay use omxplayer which can read MP3, AAC, WAVE and a few others. 

# /etc/init.d/start-sound

echo "Playing startup sound"
omxplayer /path/to/file.mp3 2>&1 >/dev/null &

omxplayer is pre installed with the latest (for a while now) and also you can do the same to play video to a selected output device.

If you get permission error try putting sudo in front of omxplayer

Piotr Kula
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Add the command to play the sound at the end of /etc/rc.local

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